In his first 6 months in office, Trump has made 836 “false or misleading” claims, and average of 4.9 per day. (Yes, someone is keeping track.) But it doesn’t stop there.

“[T]he nation’s press is in agreement that the president of the United States lies, and lies a lot. … [T]he contents of White House press briefings are more valued by the nation’s comedy writers than by the reporters covering them …. [T]he president is, in fact, not merely a liar but suffering from a more severe mental impairment.

“What we will do about it is still up in the air, but it seems clear that the day is coming.”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: Does the Constitution work? Does impeachment work? Does the 25th Amendment work? We’re going to find out. We may not like the answer. After all, the Constitution is only a piece of paper. What really matters is the good sense of our fellow citizens, and by all indications, too many of them don’t have any. (Oh, and be sure to count Doctor Dumbfuck as part of that crowd.)

“That it took six months to start wondering whether the man who talked about grabbing women, who discussed his penis size during a presidential debate, who sent his press secretary to baldly lie about the size of the crowds on his inauguration day, and who is currently engaged in a public defense of his campaign team openly seeking the assistance of the Russian government during a period of unprecedented assault on our election systems by that government, is perhaps not the brilliant world-shaping genius he made himself out to be.”

The problem:

“This is the problem with the Republican Party. They don’t catch on too quick.”

4,5, essential tremor, Don’t like seeing Hillbilly Traitors compared to authoritarian nationalists? Then why would you bypass a dozen other more qualified candidates to overwhelmingly select an authoritarian nationalist to run your party and chart it’s future?

For “the party of personal responsibility” you people sure spend a helluva lot of time blaming Democrats for all the trouble you’ve made for yourselves. And since your party has now entered into agreements with foreign hostile powers to weaken our national security, thwart our national interests, and corrupt our democratic processes, it’s only to be expected that Democrats would pile on for the good of the country. It’s our patriotic duty, you fucking Nazi pigs.

@9 Now that it’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump is, in fact, arrogant and reckless enough to fire Mueller the question is whether his fellow Republicans have enough shards of patriotism, loyalty, and decency left to fire him.

10, since the question of Hillbilly Traitor agreement with treason is fairly moot, perhaps of greater interest might be the question of how Blue Dogs who are actively working with the administration (albeit rather quietly) will fare once Fuckface sweeps aside the Constitution? Is it “bi-partisan” to “cooperate” with a White House that is engaged in criminal conspiracies, obstruction of justice, and corruption of the rule of law? Or is “collaboration” a better word?

” … Rudy Giuliani on Monday swatted away a report that he is a contender to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and said Sessions made the right decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.”

13, What is so hard about this for these people? Wasn’t this process well understood, for like decades prior to this?

You get appointed, the Senate will hold hearings, they will ask you direct questions about things, and afterward, assholes will work fairly tirelessly to check the veracity of your answers. Your enemies (and let’s face it, you have plenty) will betray you if you give them something to betray. If you met with Russians and talked with them about campaign help, you shouldn’t lie about it. You will get caught. Every time.

It’s not like you never even suspected that Jonah Goldberg’s mom would convince your fuck buddy to record your phone calls and put the blue dress in an evidence bag. That’s dumb. But it’s naive dumb.

Assuming that, if you lie under oath in front of the U.S. Senate about conversations you had with a Russian enemy, the Russian enemy won’t narc you out is not naive. It’s insane. I swear it is almost impossible to get ahead of the stupid when it comes to team Fuckface.

C’mon. It’s Bill Clinton’s cock we’re talking about. He ambitiously and successfully plowed dozens if not hundreds of women over a career in public life. He made a mistake once he’s achieved the office of the most powerful person in the world and it was a naive one?

He was sufficiently powerful to no longer care much if he was caught.

Unless you are arguing his mistake was a preference to see a pearl necklace that one specific time.

@18 Mighty generous of you. I hope for your sake you’re that fortunate when it’s your turn to face Saint Peter. Of course, if the sin he holds against you is your Trump ass-kissing, you’re going to be in big trouble anyway.

As you very rarely do that, I doubt it. Shit happens. But if you start doing it two or three times in every thread and we begin to need a decoder ring to understand WTF you’re even talking about, you’ll have then moved into loon territory. But I don’t see that ever happening.

22, I guess where Bill Clinton’s penis is concerned Врач немой ебать has the usual struggle to stay focused.

Once we manage to set aside the very small matter of the longest and most costly investigation of a President in history, undertaken by not one but two successive Republican independent prosecutors, both of whom routinely leaked grand jury material to the media, and who veered from investigating potential fraud in a real estate investment to investigating oral sex between two consenting adults, we can settle on the simple question of how President Clinton was “caught” for lying about having an extra marital affair.

I’m quite sure Врач немой ебать speaks from authority when he insists that an otherwise experienced cheater would know never to discuss the relationship in a setting where it might be recorded, and always wear a condom, even when receiving oral sex, in order to avoid the creation of physical evidence.

This arrest will cost a California police department a couple million dollars. But no cop will go to jail, or even lose his job. Once again, taxpayers will get stuck with the legal bills for bad cop behavior.

@10. No. The party of No do nothing’s. The Party of No, fuck the Country (and Dumbfuck Doctors). No, the Party of we are the biggest dumbfuck scumbags that live apes (look it up its in the dictionary, right next to Hillbilly).

43, It’s estimated that of the 2 million US pregnancies each year brought to term and delivered with Medicaid about 25% would opt for the $75 abortion over $9000 out of pocket when “Ape”, “Doctor Dumbfuck” and Fuckface take away Medicaid support. Thats Hillbilly Traitors voting to double the number of abortions.

McMorris Rodgers YES vote on slashing Medicaid can be expected to result in an additional several thousand abortions in Washington State each year. Many of those abortions will be provided to young, working poor women from neighboring or nearby Hillbilly states with restricted access to family planning services.

When cops get sued for misbehavior and lose, the individual cops involved should suffer financially. Perhaps part of the settlements involved should come from police pension funds. That might tone down a bit of this business we’re seeing with cops and abuse of power. If the cops have some real skin in the game, things would definitely change.

48, Perhaps a better approach would be for taxpayer funded municipal liability pools to take risk management more seriously.

With a population of only 80,000 it’s a safe bet that Citrus Heights CA belongs to a municipal liability pool that will be called upon to settle with Mr. Nelson and his personal injury attorneys for his injuries. Quite often those risk managers will engage in a perverse calculus to determine a settlement. They will estimate the expected cost to try the case to a jury verdict and make an early settlement offer somewhat less than the expected trial costs. In a very narrow sense this is regarded as “saving” taxpayers money, even in cases that may seem frivolous to outside observers.

The fundamental flaw in this system is that it starves the virtuous cycle of robust torts defense and rewards personal injury prospecting. Over time risk pools and self-insured municipalities come to be regarded as dairy cows for personal injury firms. This is particularly the case in jurisdictions featuring joint and several liability, although that would not apply in the case of Mr. Nelson.

I may be missing some details, but at first look it appears to me that Yertle’s proposal to move forward to a floor vote on a deficit financed repeal of ACA taxes and mandates would not comply with the Byrd Rule. While this scheme may get Yertle and his fellow Hillbilly Traitor incompetents off the Schneid for the time being, whatever bill it produces from conference would almost certainly face significant court challenges for having violated the legal voting requirements for deficit measures.

In other words, a very meaningless fig-leaf that still forces politically vulnerable Hillbilly Traitors to take a costly and unpopular vote to kill babies, while trying to shift accountability to the House and prolong the political debate into next spring. Brilliant.

@52 The latest GOP plan is to make only 15 million people uninsured and raise premiums only 20%, then maybe pass something before the midterms, if they can get their act together.

But the heart of the GOP scheme is, always has been, and always will be stripping Medicaid of federal funding and giving that money to rich people. There is NO way to do that without screwing the little people who vote for them.

It doesn’t matter how many shades of lipstick they try out on this pig, it’s still a pig, and they’ll pay a price for it.

The Senate voted 50-50 to debate the House health care bill. This vote doesn’t pass a bill, and it remains to be seen whether Republicans can round up 50 senators to support throwing 15 million people off health insurance and raising premiums by 20% for the rest (CBO estimates) in order to give tax breaks to billionaires.

I hope they stick it to Trumpbillies, who have it coming, and then lose big in 2018. That would be poetic justice. Capitalists like me will take their loss to the bank.

I bought more AT&T just before the market closed. T’s earnings, reported after closing, beat analyst estimates and the shares jumped 2.5% in after-hours trading. I timed that one nicely. Held back some cash, though, in case telecoms go lower because of the wireless price war, or gov’t blocks the Time Warner deal, or Republicans crash the market with a Treasury default and/or gov’t shutdown on Oct. 1. Lots of opportunities in near future for GOPers to wipe out trillions of paper wealth, and then vultures like me swoop in and buy, buy, buy.

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